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Mastering CSS

By : Rich Finelli
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Mastering CSS

By: Rich Finelli

Overview of this book

Rich Finelli trains you in CSS deep learning and shows you the techniques you need to work in the world of responsive, feature-rich web applications. Based on his bestselling Mastering CSS training video, you can now learn with Rich in this book! Rich shares with you his skills in creating advanced layouts, and the critical CSS insights you need for responsive web designs, fonts, transitions, animations, and using flexbox. Rich begins your CSS training with a review of CSS best practices, such as using a good text editor to automate your authoring and setting up a CSS baseline. You then move on to create a responsive layout making use of floats and stylable drop-down menus, with Rich guiding you toward a modular-organized approach to CSS. Your training with Rich Finelli then dives into detail about working with CSS and the best solutions to make your websites work. You'll go with him into CSS3 properties, transforms, transitions, and animations. You’ll gain his understanding of responsive web designs, web fonts, icon fonts, and the techniques used to support retina devices. Rich expands your knowledge of CSS so you can master one of the most valuable tools in modern web design.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

What this book covers

Chapter 1, CSS Foundations, covers the fundamental concepts necessary to master CSS.

Chapter 2, Ramping Up, talks about the Sublime text editor; CSS reset, which resets the default styles in the browser; and descendant selectors.

Chapter 3, Creating a Page Layout with Floats, deep dives into floats. We'll cover the basic usage of floats, followed by creating the layout with floats, and understanding the common headaches caused by floats and how to solve for them .

Chapter 4, Creating Buttons with Modular, Reusable CSS Classes, and CSS3, covers modular CSS and multiple classes, and uses CSS3 to add transitions, hover states, transforms, and gradients to our buttons.

Chapter 5, Creating the Main Navigation and Drop-Down Menu, explains the functionality and presentation of our primary navigation.

Chapter 6, Becoming Responsive, covers the foundations of responsive web design and explains how to implement it to transform our static website into a mobile website.

Chapter 7, Web Fonts, discusses the basic syntax of the @font-face rule, font services, usage scenarios, and providers of web fonts and icon fonts.

Chapter 8, Workflow for HiDPI Devices, covers techniques for preparing images to account for Retina using SVG and techniques like the srcset attribute.

Chapter 9, Flexbox, Part 1, introduces the Flexbox module covering the basic implementation and properties.

Chapter 10, Flexbox, Part 2, covers more depth on Flexbox, building a new product listing and more advanced properties.

Chapter 11, Wrapping Up, wraps up the concepts of CSS that we covered in this book and provides some information on other CSS features that you can explore.